Thorny or caltrop murex, Murex tribulus.

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Thorny or caltrop murex, Murex tribulus. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1800.

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